Turning Spreadsheets Into Applications: "Released Sunday night in public beta, the service from Palo Alto's JotSpot lets you essentially create an application from spreadsheet data, by copying and dropping a spreadsheet into a Tracker page, which is a kind of wiki.
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Great minds seem to be thinking alike. Dan Bricklin, co-creator of the seminal spreadsheet VisiCalc, recently put out an early alpha test of something he's calling wikiCalc. For now, wikiCalc is considerably different, since you have to download software to run it, and then you FTP material to the site, so it doesn't look as smooth. But they're both steps in the right direction, toward turning out information into collaborative applications we can share with whomever we choose."
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